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There are many companies marketing solid state storage products today. The landscape is broadening, yet we continue to see consolidation. Who are the players today and who will be around in ten years? Stay tuned in upcoming days as our follow up articles shed a bit of light on today’s SSD companies, focus on the business models of some, and maybe even …

High performance solid state storage devices for enterprise and data center use are getting faster everyday it seems. Today, OCZ announced the release of their a new product, the OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD. While the name is impressive, the specifications are decidedly more so. To start things off, the CloudServ is availability in several configurations up to an …

Geil, well known for their high performance memory products, has announced the release of their Zenith S2 and S3 SSDs. The S2 will be a SATA 2 based drive and will offer up to 280MB/s and 270MB/s read and write speeds. The S3 will have a SATA 3 interface and will deliver transfer rates of well over 500MB/s, The S2 will …

Starboard Storage Systems, a company that was apparently just launched today, has announced the release of their AC72 mixed storage system. Facilitating what Starboard is calling “Application Crafted Storage”, the new unit should allow administrators to employ a “set it and forget it” attitude when it comes to managing storage. This will allow the focus to be exclusively on maintaining …

Woke up yesterday morning and couldn’t see out the front windows, and this morning everything is white. Finally, a taste of winter. In a country that expects and needs snow this is a good thing. There are a lot of people and businesses that rely on snow. And lets face it, snow in February is so much better than snow in April, May, …

ATP Electronics, well known for their high performance memory products, has released their new Velocity SI Pro industrial grade SSD. The newly released LSI Sandforce based drives will offer up to 500MB/s read and write speeds, not to mention 60,000 4k random read IOPS. The SI Pro will utilize SLC flash and has gone through extra validation for things like shock …

Understanding SSDs Performance and Implications Today’s SSD close up is going to teach us the most valuable thing we can ever learn about an SSD. This is the fourth paper in a series of articles that explain the benefits, types and components of a solid state drive and will go so far as to make up our SSD Beginners Guide …

Hitachi has announced the release of their Ultrastar SSD400S.B Series of enterprise SSDs, these SSDs being the first to employ 25nm SLC NAND flash memory ensuring ultra-high performance and endurance.  The SSD400S.B features the 6GB/s SAS interface and is available in capacities of 100GB, 200GB, and 400GB. Specifications detail performance at 536MB/s read and 502MB/s write (64K sequential) with random …

While working outside ‘the world of tech’ today, a client began a conversation to tell me of his new system. He  had purchased a Mac and was very happy with it so far,  although a little confused with how to shut it off. When originally ordering it, he didn’t think the ‘cost’ of an SDD vs HDD was worth it, so he …

Maingear, well known for their high performance custom PCs, has announced the release of their Titan 17 gaming laptop. Fully decked out, this beast will include a Core i7-3960x, 32 GB of ram, 2 Geforce GTX 580Ms in SLI, each with a 2GB framebuffer and, the star of this show, 1.8 TB of SSD storage. In this configuration, the brimming behemoth …

Let’s see… Today is the seventh day, of the second week, of the second month, of 2012 and the second full moon of the year is shining brightly in the sky over Ontario. Relevance? None…just facts. We’d like to ensure you take advantage of any and all opportunities to win free products so tonight we are highlighting Kitguru’s most recent contest.   …

Our release yesterday of our Intel 520 SSD Review (Round One) was probably one of the most anticipated events seen yet in the SSD arena and, if sales can be determined by the extreme numbers of readers who visited the site, Intel will do very well. In that review we made a promise, this being that we would follow up …

EMC, well known for their various enterprise storage products, has announced the release of their VFCache SSD caching solution for servers. According to EMC, VFCache utilizes PCIe SSDs in order to accelerate I/O performance by at least 3 times while reducing latency by 60%. EMC is touting the new product as a perfect complement to their VMAX, VMAXe, VNX and …

To say that Intel went all out with their allocation of Series 520 SSDs for review is quite the understatement.  In fact, we have NEVER seen this many reviews hit the net simultaneously. The Series 520 is, without a doubt, the biggest and baddest SSD to hit the streets and it’s release has probably been the most anticipated event in …

Well I guess the secrets out by now.  Intel has this morning officially released it’s new enthusiast level Intel 520 Series SSD and it is none other than ‘SandForce Driven’.  What’s that, you say!? Our report today is a complete analysis of the Intel 520 240GB 6Gbps SSD and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that this is only …